Somebody finally gives us a little credit for Syracuse

[MDZip]

Pat Forde listed some programs that are blowing up, but finally used us an an example of something that wasn't completely negative. Syracuse (20). The record: 1-6. The streak: lost three straight overall and 10 straight to FBS competition. The Orange has been outscored 80-13 in the fourth quarter, continuing the ineptitude of the Greg Robinson Era, as it were. But the fact that the Cuse has come closer to beating Pittsburgh and West Virginia than it did to beating Akron tells you something about the ragged state of the Big East. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/sto...mp;lid=tab3pos1

[johnnyzip84]

It's nice to see a relatively unbiased view for a change, but it's still in the context of the Big East's woes rather than having anything particularly good to say about the Zips. But at least it's not as bad as the views most of the media had immediately after the Zip victory over the Orange.

[Zippysgotagun]

It's nice to see a relatively unbiased view for a change, but it's still in the context of the Big East's woes rather than having anything particularly good to say about the Zips. But at least it's not as bad as the views most of the media had immediately after the Zip victory over the Orange.

Yeah, I saw that and got mad. I really doubt "the dash" meant that as a compliment to Akron. It said to me "A really bad team beat them worse than conference mates...this is a terrible conference."ESPN.com really wouldn't break my heart if all their servers imploded and took 90% of the writers with it.Wow...I just vented pretty hard. Sorry to ramble.

[Ryno aka Menace]

Another slap in the face, this article basically reiterates what myself and others have been saying about scheduling. Schedule teams that you can BEAT to pad your win column.http://myespn.go.com/blogs/pac10/0-3-135/P...scheduling.htmlQUOTE:No more Georgias or Penn States or TCUs or Oklahomas or Boise States.Bring on the MAC or Conference USA or the directional schools.That's how a team -- and a conference -- gains national esteem.

[MDZip]

Another slap in the face, this article basically reiterates what myself and others have been saying about scheduling. Schedule teams that you can BEAT to pad your win column.http://myespn.go.com/blogs/pac10/0-3-135/P...scheduling.htmlQUOTE:No more Georgias or Penn States or TCUs or Oklahomas or Boise States.Bring on the MAC or Conference USA or the directional schools.That's how a team -- and a conference -- gains national esteem.

If you're a BCS conference, that's probably true, a tough OOC schedule doesn't help you much because its just increases the chances for losses and your conference schedule is generally viewed as tough anyway. For non-BCS though, a schedule like ours was a good idea, one really tough game and two possible winnable ones in the BCS and one non-BCS (we'd have been getting some buzz if we won all of them - and looks like Wisconsin actually could have been possible and even with Syracuse being bad our beating them got some recognition for us). Look at the buzz East Carolina generated (they'd still be in BCS bowl discussion if they hadn't blown it in their own league). Then look at Ball State - with the exception of a Wisconsin like game, their schedule looked much like ours, but no one is giving them any chance of even being in the BCS bowl discussion - why? Strength of Schedule. I think an OOC schedule like the one we played this year (but we should have had two home games) is right about where we should be.